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Subject: Re: Mailing list throughput
From: Paul Graham <pjg @ acsu . buffalo . edu>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 17:31:16 -0400
To: Eric Thomas <ERIC @ SEARN . SUNET . SE>
Cc: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: A message of "Mon, 05 Jun 1995 22:32:09 +0200."


it seems that you're agreeing with stan.  in particular if you assume
adequate i/o bandwidth as well as adequate cpu you can arrange parallel
delivery to all recipients in real (or near real) time.  doing this with
sendmail can be resource intensive.

-------- In reply to:
On Sat, 3 Jun 1995 11:46:58 -0500 (CDT) Stan Hanks <stan@tta.com> said:

>I have a
>theory that  with infinite CPU resources  you don't have to  worry about
>the sendmail/majordomo limitations, but who has that luxury?

In fact by using
the bulk mail  program you have increased the load  on your machine (more
sendmail processes per delivery), in order to achieve faster delivery.

  Eric
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